Product & Platform Advisor
Strategic product and architecture advisory for early-stage AI and IoT companies.
After the Allegion acquisition closed, I wanted to take everything learned over 20 years — platform architecture, team building, enterprise sales support, hardware-software integration — and apply it to companies at the moment when those lessons matter most: the early stage. Deadline Consulting works with pre-seed to Series A companies navigating the gap between prototype and scalable platform. The engagements that stick are ones where founders need a partner who has been in the technical trenches and the board room.
Lessons learned
- Fractional work compounds when it is deeply embedded, not advisory-at-a-distance
- Early-stage companies need opinionated architecture more than optionality
- The best product decisions are made with engineering at the table